Bucks County Beacon readers sound off.
There’s new consensus on voter ID in Pennsylvania. That doesn’t mean an election deal is coming.
Descriptions of personal responses to the rise of fascism in 1930s Germany echo what I heard in my research talking to voters across the United States leading up to Trump’s re-election, writes Melissa Butcher.
Compared to his first term, the threat posed by Trump’s second administration is on a “new level,” environmental groups and legal experts say.
Time and again, the opposition in Mussolini’s Italy failed to concertedly oppose the fascists’ attacks on democratic norms and institutions. Then it was too late.
“This Administration’s willingness to weaponize federal law enforcement is shocking and this arrest has all the hallmarks of overreach,” said U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Milwaukee).
Princeton president Christopher Eisgruber has called Trump’s latest moves “the greatest threat to American universities since the Red Scare of the 1950s”.
The state’s nursing shortage is the result of long-standing issues in education, workforce retention and burnout, and health care delivery.
The U.S. would have faced steep and immediate losses in employment, investment, growth, and most importantly, real consumption, the best measure of household living standards.
If ICE approves the 287(g) “task force model” application and the sheriff moves forward without the commissioners’ green light, legal action will be imminent and “Bucks County taxpayers will be on the hook.”
The Michigan state lawmaker with a rising national profile is running for U.S. Senate. She also has ties to Bucks County.
The Arizona senator also discussed how Democrats need to stop being “too effing safe all the time” and do a better job of reaching out to voters and expanding the party’s base.
“But without federal funding, the road ahead becomes more challenging — not just in sustaining what we do now, but in continuing to grow and innovate,” said Bill Marrazzo, President & CEO for WHYY.
Proposed funding cuts in the draft budget “would impact our ability to do similar investigations and ensure student safety in the future,” said Jennifer Garman, CEO of Philadelphia-based Disability Rights Pennsylvania.
